Supreme Court Decision in Alice Changes Everything!

The PTAB clearly believes that Alice provides a new standard for patent eligible subject matter. “We also are not persuaded by Patent Owner’s argument that the claims have been reviewed previously by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, as well as a district court, and have been found to cover patent-eligible subject matter. The decisions cited by Patent Owner issued prior to the Supreme Court’s holding in [Alice Corp. Pty, Ltd. v. CLS Bank International, 134 S. Ct. 2347 (2014)] and thus, lacked the benefit of authoritative guidance regarding the framework for analyzing § 101 eligible subject matter that was provided by the Court inAlice.” (Emphasis added).